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Tue, 03 Mar 2015 18:42:45 +0000http://pipes.yahoo.com/pipes/Feingold's post-State plans: Wisconsin listening tourhttp://www.ksl.com?nid=157&sid=33683118&s_cid=rss-157
Former Democratic Sen. Russ Feingold is sending signals that he may be considering another run for office, telling his Facebook followers that he plans to travel around Wisconsin extensively to talk about his future after he leaves his State Department post this week.http://www.ksl.com?nid=157&sid=33683118&s_cid=rss-157Tue, 03 Mar 2015 18:30:57 +0000House Democrats to hold “public committee hearing” in protest over Healthy Utahhttp://fox13now.com/2015/03/02/house-democrats-to-hold-public-committee-hearing-in-protest-over-healthy-utah/
SALT LAKE CITY &#8212; If House Republicans won&#8217;t hear &#8220;Healthy Utah,&#8221; the governor and Senate&#8217;s plan for Medicaid expansion, House Democrats plan to proceed without them. The House Democratic Caucus announced Monday it planned to hold a &#8220;public committee hearing&#8221; on Tuesday night over Senate Bill 164. &#8220;We have spent three years in negotiations to come [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://pixel.wp.com/b.gif?host=fox13now.com&#038;blog=29519479&#038;post=362561&#038;subd=localtvkstu&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1"/>http://fox13now.com/?p=362561Mon, 02 Mar 2015 22:18:26 +0000SALT LAKE CITY — If House Republicans won’t hear “Healthy Utah,” the governor and Senate’s plan for Medicaid expansion, House Democrats plan to proceed without them.

The House Democratic Caucus announced Monday it planned to hold a “public committee hearing” on Tuesday night over Senate Bill 164.

“We have spent three years in negotiations to come up with the Healthy Utah plan, and we are not backing down. This is not about politics, or government branch against government branch,” said House Minority Leader Brian King, D-Salt Lake City, in a statement Monday. “This is about the people we lose every single year from kicking this can down the road. These people deserve our attention, they deserve our support, and we are here to hear from them.”

The committee hearing, which will feature Sen. Brian Shiozawa, R-Salt Lake City, the sponsor of SB164, is scheduled to take place Tuesday at 6:30 p.m. in the Senate building.

House GOP leaders have thus far said they would not bring SB164 to the floor for a vote, insisting there are not enough votes for it. On Monday, House Speaker Greg Hughes, R-Draper, said their version of a Medicaid expansion bill is a “work in progress.”

]]>legislaturekstubenwinslowBill advances to prevent non-partisan county electionshttp://www.sltrib.com/news/2239934-155/bill-advances-to-prevent-non-partisan-county
A committee advanced a bill Monday to ensure that most county governments will continue to have partisan offices, with candidates running as Republicans, Democrats or members of another party.
The House Political Subdivisions Committee voted 8-2 to send HB365 to the full House.
Some residents of Millard County have started work to organize a petition drive to change its county government offices from partisan to non-partisan â as elected offices in cities now are.
But Mark Thomas, state election...2239934@www.sltrib.comMon, 02 Mar 2015 19:45:08 +0000Republicans embrace prison reform, and their liberal counterpartshttp://www.sltrib.com/news/2221403-155/republicans-embrace-prison-reform-and-their
In Utahâs Capitol, liberal ACLU leaders stood next to conservative state lawmakers cheering on a bill that would detour drug addicts from prison cells to treatment programs. It also would reduce criminal penalties for getting caught with an illicit substance.
Just days later, President Barack Obama held a bipartisan meeting on criminal-justice reform in the White House and among those in attendance were Sen. Mike Lee and Rep. Jason Chaffetz, Utahâs most conservative members of Congress.
In this ...2221403@www.sltrib.comMon, 02 Mar 2015 15:21:59 +0000Utah Senate wants halt to president's power to create national monumentshttp://www.sltrib.com/news/2230692-155/utah-senate-wants-halt-to-presidents
In a sort of referendum about how senators rate President Barack Obamaâs land-management policies, the Utah Senate passed Friday a resolution urging Congress to restrict the power of a president to create national monuments.
All the Senate Republicans supported SCR4 while all Democrats opposed it. The resolution passed 24-4, with one Democrat absent, and was sent to the House.
âIâm voting aye with the reservation that when the presidency changes, I can vote no,â said Sen. Lyle Hillyard, R-Loga...2230692@www.sltrib.comMon, 02 Mar 2015 02:00:19 +0000